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A Sudden Gush
What Happens When Your Water Breaks?
By Renee Roberson
California mom Brenda Sullivan has a funny story she likes to tell about the night her water broke while she was carrying twins in 1992. It was halftime during the Super Bowl and the Washington Redskins were playing.
"Snow was on the ground and we had to stop and gas up the car," she says. "When we arrived at the hospital, there was not a soul to be found – everyone was in the patient rooms watching the game. My husband had to hunt for a wheelchair and take me up to the maternity ward himself. We did not see a single person while traveling through a decent-size hospital in Alexandria, Va.," says Sullivan, who delivered her sons the next day, eight weeks early.
It's a moment most expectant mothers look forward to and dread all at the same time. They look forward to it because it signals the end of pregnancy and, in most cases, the onset of labor and delivery for the baby they've been dreaming of for nine months. They dread it because it has the potential to happen in a less-than-desirable place, where easy cleanup may not be a possibility.
During the final weeks of pregnancy, some women sleep on top of towels so their sheets won't be stained when their amniotic fluid – or "bag of waters" – breaks. Others fearfully move through their final days praying they won't be somewhere (i.e. work, grocery store, mall) where the action of their water breaking would leave behind an embarrassing mess.
We've all seen movies where such things happen to pregnant characters, such as Drew Barrymore's amniotic fluid gushing onto the floor in Riding in Cars with Boys or Kirstie Alley's water breaking on the streets of New York in Look Who's Talking
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